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From: map@u02.svl.cdc.com (Mark Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for good Mac programming references
Keywords: mac,programming,reference
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Date: 30 Mar 91 22:38:40 GMT
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map@u02.svl.cdc.com (Mark Peters) writes:

>fredrp@tdw206.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry) writes:

>>As a programmer, I'm new to the Macintosh.  Can anyone receommend one
>>or two good books to get me started?  I know about Inside Macintosh, which
>>at five volumes seems a bit daunting.  Something with many examples would
>>help.  Also, I prefer C to Pascal.

>An excellent book is "The Macintosh programming primer" by S. Knaster    
>(I think - if you need the author's name let me know and I'll look
>at my copy).  This uses the THINK C environment for all its examples,
>although it doesn't use the Object-Oriented features.

>An okay book is "The Macintosh Revealed," which is actually a series of
>books.

"The Macintosh Programming Primer" was written by Dave Mark and
Cartwright Reed, not S. Knaster.  Knaster did write "How to Write
Macintosh Software" however, which is also a decent book.
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